# Loading files through flash
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-files-through-flash/30150
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [September 4, 2003, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-files-through-flash/30150 "2003-09-04T13:06:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@dangerousjohnny](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dangerousjohnny)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2003, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-files-through-flash/30150/1 "2003-09-04T13:06:28Z")
Is there any tutorial or anyone who can explain how to make a page which allows the user to browse & upload files? Kind of like attaching files through hotmail, except the file would go on my server instead… thanks in advance
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2003, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-files-through-flash/30150/2 "2003-09-04T13:36:48Z")
Upload
[http://robouk.mchost.com/tuts/tutorial.php?tutorial=fileupload](http://robouk.mchost.com/tuts/tutorial.php?tutorial=fileupload)
Download
[http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10885&highlight=download+file+from+server](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10885&highlight=download+file+from+server)
TD
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2003, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-files-through-flash/30150/3 "2003-09-04T13:51:53Z")
Think he meant upload using flash…
I’m not sure whether you’ll be able to browse the contents of ones hard drive with flash, though whenevr i say flash can’t do something I end up eatingmy words 😃
but you will need to use a server side script like perl/php to do the actual uploading
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2003, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-files-through-flash/30150/4 "2003-09-04T16:11:29Z")
Yes I would prefer to do it using flash. I am particularly interested in the part that allows the user to browse their computer for the file and the part that displays the file on the site.